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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Unlikely Viral You-Tube Series from Azerbaijan
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Friday, October 25, 2024
How To Improve Airline Boarding
Anyone trying to board with an early group get moved to last.
Also have a cleared area to board that is free of everyone except the next group to board.
Charge for carry-on luggage, and make checked luggage free.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Is AI stealing when it trains on copyrighted work?
Is AI stealing when it trains on copyrighted work? But that's how we humans learn to write. Like AI, we "train" by reading copyrighted books and stories written by others, and we pick up the language patterns and formations.
But, while learning, if we re-write someone's paragraph or (in the case of an artist) reproduce their drawing, then we know we're in "learning mode" and won't pass that off as our work.
I think that might be missing in AI: some over-rule which tells it that, if the current iteration is too close to the training sources, then consider it "learning material" and don't output it.
Friday, October 11, 2024
Companies should first focus on "Small AI"
They should focus on simple AI command lines that are trained on a very limited command set, simply to improve the GUI on applications.
For example, a command line on Excel, that lets you describe what you want done to your spreadsheet, "like create a new column that is equal to 5 * col1 + 3 * col2, if col3 is true".
So you don't have to memorize (or google to find out) menus, and copying formulas into each row.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics...for AI?
Today, they awarded the Physics Nobel prize to the computer scientists who laid the foundation for AI.
There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics or computer science but (perhaps for timeliness) the Nobel committee decided to give a prize to the pioneers of neural networks (which underlie artificial intelligence).
They "stretched" the definition of physics and shoe-horned them in.
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Can't Sue Uber: Software Terms and Conditions
I was reading today about a couple who were injured after their Uber driver went through a red light.
A NJ appellate court agreed with Uber that they can't sue the company because their daughter once ordered a pizza through Uber eats, and had clicked away any future trial rights while going through the app.
So, now they can only go through private arbitration.
Do you think this is fair, or sneaky?
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
East Coast Longshoremen Strike
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Ozempic, Packaged Foods, and Business Strategy "Judo"
Lesson for business leaders: how can you turn threats and weaknesses into opportunities?